Article By Melanie Watson // EEW Magazine // Church News

Pastor Joel Osteen will attract major crowds on Sunday when he welcomes newly saved rapper Kanye West to his megachurch and is preparing to make the day go as smoothly as possible.

According to a TMZ report, Osteen’s Lakewood Church contacted Ticketmaster to offer free tickets to the first 45,000 customers on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning Friday.

The anticipated massive influx of churchgoers will be managed by representatives from the Houston Police Department who will be monitoring the event alongside the church's in-house security team, spokesperson John Cannon from the police department told FOX Business.

“We’ve planned for the event and are working with the church,” he said. “[We] know it’s probably going to be more traffic than normal, more crowded than normal. We’ve planned accordingly.”

The all-day affair is reportedly focusing on 42-year-old West’s journey to salvation through Jesus Christ. The fashion designer and lyricist is also slated to minister at the evening gathering with his Sunday Service choir of more than 100 people.

Tickets, according to the report, are only offered for the evening service but not the scheduled 11 a.m. service. In the morning, the doors will be open to the first 45,000 people to arrive at the Houston, Texas-based church.

Lakewood is said to providing extra seating in an overflow room where guests can see the services that will be streamed on SiriusXM.

West has been making rounds nationwide as pastors are happily opening the doors of their churches and giving his Sunday Service music ministry a platform. West, whose record-breaking debut gospel album Jesus Is King topped Billboard charts upon its release, told late-night talk show host James Corden, "God is using me as a human being, as humbly as I can put it, he's using me to show off.”

Corden featured West during an approximately 13-minute segment of "Airpool Karaoke" – typically called "Carpool Karaoke" on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."